Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-02-18
FARM NOTES.

No rough. bo.terous. noisy quick-tem
pcrcd. swearing man is lit to have charge
of horses. cattle or sheep. Hogs are not
50 sensitive to such treatment.
Every dairyman should make it a rule to
rear the calves of only his best cows. The
offspring of average or poor cows should
always he turned OIL for veal
1t is the opinion Of DR. tlu.kins that
there is really NO true grain to butter.
pure butter being homogeneous in its text
urc. What is called the grain is "a gran
ular appearance resulting from general
and equal distribution Of briny water, sep
arating the little pellets Of butter that first
appear in churning.
This is the time for families to guard
against contagious diseases. such as small
pox. scarlet fever. diphtheria, measles and
whooping cough man in Michigan went
/ - miles to attend the funeral of the child
of friend. dead from diphtheria. He re
turned To his home, and soon after one OF
his own children sickened With the dread
disease and in a short time he lost his whole
| family Of children.
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| chase from the Canadian Pacific railroad its
ten experimental farms in the Northwest
and another large tract from the dominion
| government ON which will he located 200
head Of cattle including Polled-Angus
| herds. brood mares. Clydesdale and thor
oughbred stations. -. 600 head of sheep to
| be improved 10y Cheviot rams, and Il num-
Der of pigs to be improved with Yorkshire
boars
Authorities ON the subiect-such men rs
Mr.. John D. Gillette, the great Illinois bull
lock baron. and Prof j. W. Sanborn, of
the Missouri agricultural colege-emphat-
icallv assert that in order to secure the
greatest profit for food consumed, steers
| should be marketed at about 30 months of
age putting flesh on a beast above three
years being considered too expensive an
operation to be engaged in by people hay
ing any regard for the cost of the finished
product.
The barbed wire pool representing
over 80 large producing firms, has just met
in Chicago and agreed to advance the price
of barbed wire from to 10 per cent, to
take effect at once. This pool is about
to cooperate with the smooth wire produc-
ers toward curtailing the output, so as t.
avoid overproduction and keep up prices.
Sir John Lyster Keye has arranged foI
the purchase of an immense tract of land
from the Pacific railroad and another from
the Dominion government for thorough
bred stock farm. Villages and farmstead.
are to be established, and settlers brought
from England to occupy them.
A new law in New York state imposes ,
fine of Sl5 upon the holder of lands who al
lows the Canada thistle to 20 to seed OIL
them ANY ncighbor likely to be iniure,
by neglect to cut the thistles may give no
tice to have them cut. and if not done, TIN
supervisor or constable is obliged to hav,
the cutting done which is made a charg
against the holder of the land. Supervisor
of highways must also cut the thistles aloni
$ the roads under penalty of $40. to he re
1 covered to the use of the parties about to h
] injured 10y such neglect or refusal.
Fresh meat may be kept a long time
p thoroughly frozen and placed where it wi
not he disturbed until wanted for ust
70 When thawed. however, it must be at one
4 cooked or salted, rs freezing opens it 70
e the entrance Of air, and thus hastens deca
u when cold is removed.
4 The Farm Journal in reply 10 an inquir
about cutting up ice, gives this pointer;
IL cubic yard of ice weighs a little more tina
II ee-lourths of ton, OF, to be exact,
e j4G pounds, So that l3 yards will make
i tons, and house Is feet square and - hig
: will hold it, But So small quantity ma
= not he kept well. Better make it lOXl,
If and feet high, when it will hold 20 ton
IS and insure supply all summer.